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This is a weapon.

The concern is not about disagreeable ideas, it's about abuse and threats. Not all censorship is de jure.

"Bad Faith Communication: discourse that is intended to achieve behavioral outcomes (including consensus, agreement, "likes") irrespective of achieving true mutual understanding" I…

he also has a vested interest in the fear of hyperinflation.

The actual EFF headline is, "15 Universities Have Formed A Company That Looks A Lot Like A Patent Troll". Why was the number "15" omitted from the HN headline? It seems to imply th…

I see HN still has a policy of deleting all political content except for political articles whose thesis is "the left is anti-free-speech."

This whacks one mole, but there are many others. As long as Facebook continues to recommend and target user-generated content based on engagement metrics, it will reward the sort o…

Consumers want a lot of things with negative externalities - goods that cost less because they're produced with slave labor, transportation that emits greenhouse gases, etc. Their …

By growing as large as they have, and by building automated systems to amplify content to mass audiences, they have acquired that role. It is unfortunate that their control over th…

The classic rebuttal to free speech arguments which I'm sure you've heard, is that the first amendment doesn't apply to private companies, and that your right to free speech doesn'…

Yeah that particular date certainly had a lot of uncertainty, as any 50 year projection must. My "this" was ambiguous; what I was trying to refer to was, the issue of warming's eff…

From the conclusion: "At a 3% per annum growth rate of CO2, a 2.5℃ rise brings world economic growth to a halt in about 2025." I wonder if attempts by the scientific community to p…

Most businesses don't require real time forecasting, but I would speculate that Uber likely uses it to decide when and where to activate surge pricing.